BERGEN COUNTY — Five days after Hurricane Sandy, more than 171,000 homes remain without power across the county.

According to PSE&G, a total of 141,000 customers were still in the dark as of about 5 a.m. - around 23 percent of the company's 612,000 outages across the state. Areas with large numbers of outages still being reported included Teaneck, Fort Lee and Hackensack, which all still had more than 10,000 as of this morning.

Orange & Rockland, which serves most of the western portion of the county, reported 29,799 customers still waiting for power. That figure represents about half of the utility's customer base in Bergen County.

Steady progress by both utilities has been made since Hurricane Sandy knocked out nearly all power to the area on Monday and Tuesday.